New Year's Resolutions

I don't really get the New Year's Resolutions, or I should say that I don't understand why people do it.  I do think it is important to reflect on your life and seek understanding on your life but I just don't get the constant need of people to make their life "better".  Whatever happened to enjoying what you do have, enjoying the stage of life that you're in right now and just to relax a bit?

I remember feeling a few years ago that I wasn't happy and that I was missing something.  That I needed to "do" something.  Go to school, get a job, you name it, I was thinking it.  I wondered if I should stay at home with the kids or work.

I started to think about what I really wanted from this parenting stage of my life.  I thought about what I believe to be important.  After thinking about these things and then deciding that this is the direction that I wanted to go, all of that indecision, regret, unhappiness dissolved away.  Being home with my kids is the most important thing I can do for them, being there for them even after they reach school age.  I remember being young and coming home from school and liking the fact that my mom was home.  So many kids come home and no one is there to ask them how their day was, etc.  So many parents are caught up in trying to reclaim an old part of their past that they don't see what is in the present.  I do understand that some moms have to work and they don't have a choice or that some moms are better parents when they're not at home all day.  I get that.  I'm specifically talking about what is best for me and my kids and my family.

And that is being home with them, enjoying them, teaching them and being happy about that decision.  Not second guessing it.  We really only "get" our kids for a small time in the grand scheme of things and I would rather send that small time with them and then worry about what I'm going to do with the rest of my life.

One of my new favorite quotes:

Slow down and everything that you are chasing will come around and catch you.  - Tony De Paloa

I first saw this off of Sarah's blog: Cloverlane

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